Nearly 400,000 of 2.2 million prisoners nationwide have a psychiatric diagnosis. The math is as easy as it is shocking: Ten out of every 11 psychiatric patients housed by the government are behind bars. A prisoner-journalist on penitentiaries’ lack of mental health services.

This law will let patients and physicians bypass the FDA and go directly to pharmaceutical companies for access to investigational therapies. But it doesn’t require pharmaceutical companies to accede to these requests. A parent chronicles the heartbreaking side of “right to try,” which reduces red tape—but not profit margins.

If Silicon Valley really wanted to make a difference in Dumas, it should have studied the people first. When it did, it would realize that the presence of the digital gig economy couldn’t alone halt a cycle of poverty that had begun with slavery. The gig economy can open new doors for American workers, but inequality still rules the land of opportunity.